vi, vim not working correctly after today's f7t4 updates

Gerry Tool gerrytool at gmail.com
Wed May 23 13:35:10 UTC 2007


On 5/18/07, Gerry Tool <gerrytool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 18 May 2007 13:26:42 Gerry Tool wrote:
> > > Yesterday or the day before, I used vim just fine.
> > >
> > > Today as a normal user:
> > > [gerry at f7t4 ~]$ vi
> > > vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open
> > > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > [gerry at f7t4 ~]$ vim
> > > vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open
> > > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > As root, vi works, but not vim:
> > > [root at f7t4 ~]# vim
> > > vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open
> > > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > Anyone else seeing this or know the reason?
> > >
> > > Thanks.  Gerry
> >
> > Another one eh?  Do you still have your yum logs laying around?  It appears
> > some people aren't getting the perl-libs package pulled in when they get the
> > new perl package, which for the life of me I can't reproduce :(
> >
I manually installed perl-libs and now vi/vim works as expected.  I
don't know why it wasn't automatically installed previously.

[root at f7t4 ~]# yum install perl-libs
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-libs.i386 4:5.8.8-18.fc7 set to be updated

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 perl-libs               i386       4:5.8.8-18.fc7   development       571 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 571 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): perl-libs-5.8.8-18 100% |=========================| 571 kB    00:01
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: perl-libs                    ######################### [1/1]

Installed: perl-libs.i386 4:5.8.8-18.fc7
Complete!

Gerry




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